After studying English as an undergraduate at Cambridge, John Lowden took the MA (1977) and PhD (1980) at the Courtauld. He had a temporary appointment in art history at St Andrews, before joining the staff of the Courtauld in 1982. He is active nationally and internationally as a member of scientific committees, advisory boards, and as a supervisor of doctoral research. As director of the Research Centre for Illuminated Manuscripts he seeks to facilitate and forward research in relevant areas. The Making of the Bibles Moralisées, was awarded the 2002 Gruendler Prize for the best book in medieval studies. His Early Christian and Byzantine Art (now in its fourth impression) has been translated into French, Greek, Japanese and Korean. He has been a British Academy/ Leverhulme Senior Research Fellow (1992-93), and he gave the Grinfield Lectures in the University of Oxford (1996-98). He was co-investigator with Dr Scot McKendrick (British Library) on the AHRC-funded ‘ROYAL’ project (2008-2011) which resulted in the major exhibition 'Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination' (The British Library, November 2011-March 2012).

Catherine Yvard completed a degree in sociology and political science in France before turning to art history at Trinity College, Dublin where she completed a PhD in 2005, focusing on a late 15th-century French book of hours (Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, ms. 89) and including a Catalogue of Manuscript Books of Hours in Irish Public Libraries, yet to be published. She has worked on digitisation projects at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, the Bodleian Library in Oxford and the British Library in London, cataloguing medieval illuminated manuscripts. She has taught courses on illuminated manuscripts in the Middle Ages at Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, Morley College, London and at the Courtauld Institute of Art (Summer School 2009-2011). She now works as Research Fellow on the insular Gospel Books Project at Trinity College Dublin (2015-2016).
She specialises in the study of late-medieval Books of Hours and of ivories in the Gothic period. She is particularly interested in the transition from manuscript to printed, and the transmission of patterns through time and space, and between different media.

Matilde Grimaldi is currently a PhD student at the Courtauld Institute of Art, where she is working at the reconstruction of the lost Romanesque Cathedral of Tortosa (Catalonia) under the supervision of Dr. Tom Nickson. She completed her BA and MA in History of Art at the Università di Roma La Sapienza, followed by an MA in Medieval Studies at the Centre for Medieval Studies of the University of York. She was the recipient of the Santander International Connections Award 2012, as well as of the Confindustria Master and Back grant. In 2011-2012, she took part in the Digitalizing Medieval Sculpture Project at the University of York.
Her main interests are Southern Italian and Spanish Medieval Art and the connections between the two.
Matilde also works as a freelance archaeological illustrator: see HERE for more details.

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